EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

By Glen Irvin A Spanish teacher gives us the low-down on how the open world game can engage language learners in new ways.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Laila Sanguras on episode 183 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Laila Sanguras, author of Grit in the Classroom , defines grit, shares the misinformation about grit, and talks about developing it in our students. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuatio

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Teacher Reboot Camp

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Our students are joining digital communities at very young ages and not reflecting on their roles as community members. Every member has rights and responsibilities which make their communities flourish. When members do not make it their duty to respect the rules, norms, or other members then the community suffers. The problem is our digital communities consist of millions and several members do not ever reflect on their roles and responsibilities as members of the community or care much about t

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sponsored by Samsung “Solve for Tomorrow” From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Samsung “ Solve For Tomorrow ” program is still accepting applications—and applying takes only five minutes! This contest is open to U.S. public school teachers for grades 6-12. Your application won’t require a lesson plan or anything detailed, but you have to enter by November 9 th to be eligible to participate.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It’s that time again, when we’ve settled into the new academic year and take a look ahead to plan, in more detail, what and how our lessons and curriculum will roll out over the semesters. Keeping an eye on emerging trends in technology will give your planning some context and perhaps inspire you to try one or two new things in the new year. 3 e-learning megatrends.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

December 4-10, 2017, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. Throughout participating websites, you’ll find a variety of self-guided tutorials that say “anybody can do, on a browser, tablet, or smartphone” You’ll even find unplugged tutor

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Background EdTech is booming. The industry has accumulated $887M in funding in the first half of this year already. Many schools continue to adopt a 1:1 environment, a program that offer students autonomy and access; yet many teachers and parents feel they lack the required structure to optimize success. Thus, the need for classroom management tools is becoming imperative.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

When it comes to working with researchers, Principal Stan Garber of Cabrillo Middle School in Santa Clara, California, says, “It really is all about individual kids. And I think if researchers understand the passion that most people in education have for kids, and they share that, they would be welcome in most schools.”. He speaks from experience. He recently opted in to participate in a study investigating the core cognitive capacities of the brain, also referred to as executive function.

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Securly

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We want to help teachers manage their classroom – the way they want. For free. The post Classroom by Securly: Helping Teachers Manage EdTech For Free appeared first on Blog.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Standards For Digital Citizenship In Graphic Form by TeachThought Staff ISTE has long had available technology standards to help promote informed use of technology by students. These standards are broken down into 5 categories for students, teachers, administrators, coaches, and computer science educators. According to wikipedia (don’t judge us), this process started in earnest in […].

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We want to help teachers manage their classroom – the way they want. For free. The post Classroom by Securly: Helping Teachers Manage EdTech For Free appeared first on Blog.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

You could say my sons are on an education fast track! At 16 and 17 years old, Matthew and William graduated from high school with 60 college credits apiece and are now enrolled with honors in their first year at McNeese State University. In four years, William and Matthew will have three Bachelor of Science degrees between them. Matthew will graduate in 2020 with two bachelor degrees, in electrical engineering and computer science.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Background. EdTech is booming. The industry has accumulated $887M in funding in the first half of this year already. Many schools continue to adopt a 1:1 environment, a program that offer students autonomy and access; yet many teachers and parents feel they lack the required structure to optimize success. Thus, the need for classroom management tools is becoming imperative.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Technology integration can be difficult. Often times when schools go one-to-one with iPads, teachers continue to do what they’ve always done. Digital worksheets, PDFs with annotations, and consumption can quickly become the norm. I remember when I went one-to-one with devices in my secondary English classrooms. I immediately wanted to figure out how my classes could go paperless and how I could get my students to do everything on their devices.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Desperate Need For Self-Criticism in Education by Terry Heick To grow, teachers must be able to reflect critically on their own performance. Education is ‘actuated’ by teachers. It makes sense, then, that education should also be able to reflect critically on its own performance as well. Currently this occurs through the comforting precision of analysis and […].

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Having a vision of the future requires—to some extent—understanding what the future will look like. Technologies like artificial intelligence and augmented reality have evolved “much faster than our civic infrastructure,” said Tom Vander Ark, chief executive of Getting Smart. “Our civic institutions are being swamped by questions that we’re not ready for.”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

November 2, 2017 For those of you asking about math Windows apps to use with kids the collection below has you covered. We curated for you some of the top rated math apps for young learners.read more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Video technologies’ continue to have a profound impact on K-12 and higher-ed classrooms as educators and students report increases in achievement, engagement and active content creation, according to a new survey from Kaltura. Ninety-nine percent of institutions report they have teachers regularly incorporating video technologies in their curriculum.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

November 2, 2017 Here is a collection of some of our favourite apps for creating flashcards on iPad or iPhone. Students can use them to help with memorizing vocabulary, preparing for a test,read more.

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EmergingEdTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A Very Different Approach to Electronic Textbooks: the AR Enhanced Educational Book Livit Studios is launching a series of augmented reality books, a fully featured app with books designed from the. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Create a Spreadsheet in Google Forms In the good old days, you could default your Google Form to create a spreadsheet. Now you have to do it every time you create a Google Form. But of course, you want a spreadsheet! When you have a spreadsheet linked to Google Drive a COPY of the Form […]. The post Google Forms: Create a Spreadsheet appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Something I know I need to know and understand more about are APIs, so I follow Kin Lane (aka The API Evangelist ). He has a great introductory tutorial API 101 , but he also points to some useful tools to get those of us who aren’t programmers using APIs in productive ways. (Also, see Julie Meloni’s four-part intro to “Working with APIs from ProfHacker’s early days: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4.).

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The content of "Teaching Kids to Thrive" will help teach students positive ways to think, practice executive functioning skills, and create a culture of caring and responsibility. Linda Biondi describes why she found it to be one of the most empowering books she's read.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Do you remember how the classrooms looked back when you were in school? The chalkboard or whiteboard, the wooden desk, the television set that was wheeled around from classroom to classroom on movie day, the chalk, etc. If you went to visit a classroom today, however, you might be disappointed to know that most of […]. The post K-12 STEM Learning: How Bringing Your Own Device (BYOD) to Class Can Help With STEM Education appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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Prodigy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

They learn from it every day, but most young students don’t understand its inner-workings nor the effects it has on them. That’s why educating them about mass media is an important, albeit challenging, task. The challenge lies in the fact that each distinct medium is complex and many curricula don’t dedicate fleshed-out units to teaching […]. The post Teaching Media Literacy: Its Importance and 10 Engaging Activities [+ Downloadable List] appeared first on Prodigy Blog.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A successful school makerspace needs an enthusiastic maker community, school-wide participation, and staff support. Challenge-based learning projects in the makerspace have many benefits for students, and can engage and get them excited about new projects. In “ Challenge-Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace ,” Diana Rendina, Media Specialist and Writer, Tampa Preparatory School, Tampa, FL, presented tips for design challenges and shared experiences from working in the makerspace durin

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In High-Payoff Strategies, Jody Spiro promises a toolkit of strategies and templates for school leaders to facilitate change. Principal Matt Renwick says Spiro tackles too many agendas in the brief book but thinks readers can pull out some useful ideas, including a culture scan.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sometimes the little things can make you so happy. Over the past several years I was able to fairly happily migrate most of my presentations from those more robust presentation platforms to Google Slides because it is so darn portable and sharable and because it so encourages collaboration. But there was one feature I really grieved– Slide Sorter view.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In Gallup surveys, students report increasing levels of classroom boredom, topping out in high school. How do teachers counter the trend? Harris and Bradshaw offer strategies in their 2nd book on Battling Boredom. Rita Platt finds lots to use with her own students.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As a grade 5 teacher, I am always looking for ways to help make the editing process easier for my students. I have many reluctant writers, and asking them to edit their work often turns them off of writing even further. Then, I found CheckMark by EdTechTeam. No longer was I having to rewrite the same comments for multiple students, several times throughout each of their documents.

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AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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